- Asteroids Arcade Troubleshooting
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I know there are lots of threads on this machine already, and I'm trying to go through them all right now to help figure out my issue.I picked up a Asteroids upright yesterday that powers up, but doesn't work. The player 1+2 lights both flash, and the coin counter keeps on clicking. If I put in into test mode, the lights stop flashing, coin counter stops, and I hear a humming sound from the speaker. I haven't been able to get any image on the monitor yet, and I found a blown fuse which probably explains why. I'd like to get it playing blind first, then worry about the monitor. I was going to place an order from Bob Roberts for the following, and wondered if there is anything else I should get that I might need to replace eventually anyway?Atari 'Big Blue' CapacitorAsteroids PCB Cap KitAtari A/R or A/R II-01 Repair KitWhere are the best places to test the voltage? I've also heard mention of the spot killer light, what does that mean exactly?
Sorry for the newb questions, but I really want to getting this up and running. Thanks for the help! Do a search because I had the same problem.
When P1 and P2 flash quickly with no picture it's a board issue (Four bad rams and a bad eprom). I had the same thing with my CT. The test points are labeled on the board to check the voltages.
Check to see if the spot killer is on because it should be. You may not even have anything wrong with the monitor. Now if the F100 and F101 fuses keep popping on the monitor board when powered up, for me it was replacing the two large capacitors on that same board (C100 and C101). I think mine UR has an 801 monitor.
Like I said if you search, you will be amazed at how much Asteroids info is on here. That's how I fixed my monitor. You probably have a G05-802 in your Asteroids. You may want to buy Bob's cap kit for it too.
The kit doesn't include the 2 big 6800uf50v caps, but you can order them From Bob too seperately.Anyway I just got mine working. It had a board problem that wasn't resolved with any of the caps. You may get lucky and it may be a few bad caps.
Asteroids Arcade Troubleshooting
If not there are KLOV'ers who fix the boards. I would order exactly what you have listed and the monitor caps too. That way you get everything done at one time. And you may want to consider the High Score Save kit too, like others have said. I had the same thing with my CT. The test points are labeled on the board to check the voltages.Actually, only the +5 test point is labeled on the board.
(at least on the board I have) As is the Ground test point. However, there are other voltages to check as well.
If you read my current thread on my Asteroids problem I'm working on you will find photos about 3 pages in with instructions for what other voltages to look for also. Here's the link: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=130269. I am pretty sure the Asteroids High Save kit from arcadeshop only replaces one chip, which is one of the vector ROMs. Not all the game ROMs.At least the Braze kit I have only replaces one chip and the other ROMs are still required to play the game.My asteroids high score kit bypasses all 3 CPU eproms. You can leave them installed orremove them, but they are not accessed once the kit is installed and they are NOTrequired to play the game.
Asteroids Arcade Game Troubleshooting Manual
It also ships with a REV2 vector eprom, this isjust in case you have one of the more uncommon REV1 vector eproms and the HS kitonly works for rev2. All of my HS kits bypass the CPU roms. Hope that helps clarify. I ended up getting the high score kit to take care of the eprom with the broken legs, plus having a high score kit will be nice. I also ordered that stuff from Bob Roberts, and look forward to getting it in. Hopefully that will take care of the flashing p1 and p2 light problem.In the meantime, I'm actually moving all of the internals into a nicer Asteroids cabinet that I had which was empty. When I took out the deflection board(?) inside the monitor I noticed that two of the components were cracked.
Asteroids Arcade Game Troubleshooting Pc
Are those the resistors that orion3311 talked about prevoiusly? I can just solder in some heavy gauge wire in their place? I've attached a picture of it.Thanks for all the help!
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